Samurai and Shoguns Take over Japan

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Samurai and Shoguns Take over Japan

• A PowerPoint by Trevor Gammill and Nick Gatto
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Ranks

• Emperor figurehead for Shogun
• Shogun military leader
• Daimyo led armies of samurai
• Samurai warriors with honor
• Peasants poor people

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Samurai

• Samurai means To Serve
• Weak paid with rice, strong paid with land
• Most carried two swords

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Two clans fight

• With unhappiness with government being run, two
  clans fought for leadership
• Minamoto verses (not yet discovered)
• Minamoto clan won, and their leader became Shogun
  in 1192
• Emperor became a figurehead